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No joke my first thought reading the title was that some researcher left his laptop equipment over there.
by lnyng 6y ago
No joke my first thought reading the title was that some researcher left his laptop equipment over there.
- hathym 6y agoSame here, I guess I need to disconnect a little bit..
- ooobit2 6y agoI'm just sad it wasn't a trackpad. I'd have kicked it into the volcano.
- moron4hire 6y agoI assumed the animal, but expected the record to be in the category of "size of testicles".
- wilfredk 6y agoI think reading the title on HN made me think it was the computer peripheal and not the animal...
- amelius 6y agoThis made me think of this article: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/17/arts.artsnews1 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/17/arts.artsnews1
- ekrebs 6y agoFor others interested, this was solved the next day. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/19/martinwainwright.uknews2 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/19/martinwainwright....
- Someone 6y agoThat’s a variation on extreme ironing, “an extreme sport in which people take ironing boards to remote locations and iron items of clothing. According to the Extreme Ironing Bureau, extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing)
- amelius 6y ago> That’s a variation on extreme ironing I'd say an extreme variation of it ;)
- Timpy 6y agoI didn't know why a mouse on a volcano would break some kind of record, and as my brain rapid fired possible parses to the sentence it did occur to me that this is a technology board and it could be a computer mouse. Neither one seemed more feasible for world records at face value.
- CydeWeys 6y agoI correctly realized they were talking about an animal, but I'd misread it as "moose", and the mental image I had developed on the way to clicking through to the article was thus not accurate.